You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. Happy Valentine's Day? Did you get your sweetheart
something special? We're gonna be telling you during wake up Call how most of
you are huge procrastinators when it comes to Valentine's Day. Here's what's ahead on
wake Up Call. Two students SIB been hurt when a speeding car crashed into
them on a sidewalk in Anaheim. The driver apparently missed a turn, lost
control, hit a utility poll, and then veered into a group of kids
next to the Anaheim Tennis Center yesterday afternoon. Two kids were injured, the
other two were able to jump out of the way. The US House is
voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorchis over the Biden administration's handling of the
US Mexico border. The vote two fourteen, two thirteen. President Biden called
the impeachment a blatant act of unconstitutional partner partisanship and petty political games. We're
gonna find out more about the impeachment and what's next with ABC's Stephen Portnoy.
That's coming up in less than five minutes. A three point nine magnitude earthquake
was reported six miles north of Westmoreland in Imperial County yesterday just before noon.
There have been more than a dozen quakes reported near El Centro and Imperial since
midnight Monday. The largest was a four point eight at six oh five.
It's handle on the news. NATO members are expected to spend a record amount
on defense spending as they brace for a possible President Trump. Again, let's
get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. LAPD Chief mor says guarding the unfinished Greek graffiti covered ocean wide towers
in downtown La has strained his already understaffed police department. Officers have spent three
thousand hours guarding it so far. We do think that unfortunately, it has
become an iconic location to draw people for nefarious acts. We now have seen
a base jump that has occurred off the top of that location. Police have
arrested more than a dozen people for trespassing and other crimes. LA City Councilman
Kevin da Leone has introduced a motion asking for nearly four million dollars to secure
the skyscraper complex. City officials would also try to build the property owner based
in China, but the company is said to be bankrupt. A four year
old boy kidnapped in Long Beach has been found safe and Amber alert was issued
when the boy's father, who had left the car running with the boy inside,
realized it was stolen last night. The child was the only occupant of
the vehicle, no one else in the area. He's safe, he's unharmed,
and he's been reunited with his family. Long Beach Polices Alison Gallagher says
two women found the car and called police. The boy was found still in
his car seat about an hour after the Amber alert was issued. Anaheim has
voted to start impounding illegal street vendor equipment, merchandise, and unsafe food for
code violation. Anaheim says not one single street food has obtained proper permits and
health licenses, despite one hundred and forty one citations handed out in twenty twenty
two and four hundred twenty three last year. We've seen raw chicken in a
bucket, sitting in the sun, waiting to be cooked and ultimately sold,
and i'ms Aaron Ryan says it's about public safety. We've also seen open flames
on her sidewalks, generators and pro paying tanks, even merchandise vendors just taking
up space so people can't pass by. The new rules could start April first
in Anaheim. Corbin Carson KFI News, Yell County Board of Supervisors has tentatively
approved new rules for short term rentals in unincorporated areas. Rentals would be restricted
to a host's primary residence. The rules would also require hosts with Airbnb or
verbo to register and pay a fee of nine hundred fourteen dollars a year,
and there are limits on the number of guests, the length of stay,
and types of events available for short term rentals. Well, it is Valentine's
Day, which means love is in the air. A Silly Love just in
time for Valentine's Day. Billboard is ranked the top fifty songs that have the
word love in the title. This is the number five song. Silly Love
Songs by Wings. We Found Love by Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris came in at
number four. How Deep is Your Love by the Beg's number three. I'll
Make Love to You by Boys to Men is number two, and the number
one top song with the word love and its title of all time Endless Love
by Diana rosson Lionel Richie. Oh, it's five seven on your wake up
call. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Steven Portnoise. So, Steve
and we got two big things, an impeachment in the House and a ninety
five billion dollars four in aid package in the Senate. What do you want
to hit first? Oh, my goodness, it's really up to you.
But let's let's talk about the impeachment vote, because I think I think it
is interesting, especially visa they result last night in New York's third congressional district
on Long Island, where a Democrat won a seat that had been held by
Republicans. The disgraced former Congressman George Santos expelled by his colleagues, and now
it's Tom Swazi, a Democrat, who will retake a seat he had previously
held for many years. The reason I mentioned it is because it makes life
that much harder for Speaker Mike Johnson. Last night was an emblem of it,
when he, by a single vote, passed the impeachment resolution targeting Alee
Hudra. Majorcis the first Cabinet official to face impeachment in nearly one hundred and
fifty years, and it was the second attempt to do it because the first
time I Speaker Johnson had difficulty counting the votes and didn't anticipate the Democrats would
have perfect attendance while Republicans didn't. And now, going forward, Speaker Johnson
will only be able to lose two of his own members in close party line
votes before a measure goes down to defeat. So it'll just make it that
much harder to govern. And the sense we get as we pivot now to
the Foreign Aid Bill is that there's not a clear plan that Speaker Johnson has
not told his colleagues what it is that he and they should do when it
comes to this ninety five billion dollar measure that's been sent over by the Senate.
The only thing you're hearing from them publicly is complaints that it doesn't include
border security. Well, we've known that that was going to happen. He
said that if it did include the border security provisions that the Senate had negotiated,
it'd be dead on arrival in the House, which is why those provisions
were stripped out. So now, what is the House going to do?
It really is a question that we can't answer this morning. One option for
Democrats in the House is to invoke the rarely used procedural measure known as a
discharge petition, and that involves collecting two hundred and eighteen signatures and submitting the
petition to the House Clerk and calling a vote on the floor despite the Speaker's
objection. And if it were allowed, the House were truly allowed to work
its will. As Speaker Johnson says, everyone knows that there will probably be
enough support amongst Republicans and Democrats to send this ninety five billion dollar four in
a bill to the President's desk. The reason that won't happen is because Speaker
Johnson objects to it, and he's urging his Republican members and not to sign
on to it. Please don't cross me, is what saying to his colleagues.
And we'll see what happens. But his speakership is already kind of hanging
in the balance because he's come under a lot of criticism and after they took
McCarthy out, I wonder how much sway he's going to have. Well that's
right, I mean, look he's essentially powerless. He has to cater to
the far right members of his caucus who demand things and are extremely ardent in
their demands, and he knows that if he crosses them, they'll come for
him. At the same time, if he wants to get anything done in
the House, he has to worry about moderates. And last night is a
clear example. You know, there were three Republicans who said that impeaching a
sitting Homeland Security secretary for his received failure to enforce the law is a policy
dispute that does not rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors. If
one more Republican had joined on to that notion, it would have tanked the
whole thing. Now that's not what happened. The House has impeached the Homeland
Security Secretary and there will be in some respect the trial in the Senate.
But it just demonstrates just how razor thin things are for the speaker. It
only takes one vote, it's a majority rule, and one single vote makes
the difference. But it's that much more difficult to get anything done in a
divided Congress and within a divided Republican party. Okay, and do we know,
Stephen, when they're going to take up either the Foreign Aid bill and
or the impeachment. No, okay, well there you have it. We'll
be watching for it. Then, Stephen Fortnoy, thanks for helping us sort
it all out. You bet all right. Take care. Let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Two suspected gang members have been arrested in connection with four deadly shoots in southeast
Dela County. Bell Police Chief Carlos east Lust says the shooters should be brought
to justice. It is hoped that the day will do everything in their power
to prosecute them and be aggressive in their prosecution and not minimize this event.
Captain Andrew Meyer the Ellie County Sheriff's Department says the shootings happened over a span
of just a few hours, within a five mile radius of each other in
Bell Cutahey, Huntington Park, and the Florence Firestone area. It appears this
was a random murder spree, a no armed robbery that we're aware of,
nothing else other than random targeting. The youngest person shot and killed was fourteen
years old Lisa still looking for a possible third person involved in the shootings.
Ukraine claims it has destroyed a Russian military ship in the Black Sea. A
Ukrainian defense official claims the operation today was carried out by Ukraine's military intelligence agency.
The official says the Russian landing ship was attacked by drones and sank to
the bottom of the sea. A driver in Texas has died in a crash
into an emergency room. Five people were hurt in the crash yesterday. The
hospital's chief medical officer, doctor Peter de Jung, says it couldn't have been
worse. We are so thankful that the building itself appears to be in good
condition and there's been no impact operations outside of the emergency department at all.
The young says patients in the er were moved to other hospitals. He says
patients already admitted into the hospital were not affected. Police called it a mash
casualty incident, but said it appears to have been an accident. Students planning
to pursue careers in tech are facing a shrimp shrinking job market. Major tech
companies have laid off thousands of employees in the last year and experts say the
market's becoming more competitive. They say the industry saw record profits at the height
of the pandemic, but now future graduates are facing a different trend, which
could slow the number of jobs. They say students need to be patient.
A round stingray named Charlotte has gotten knocked up all by herself in North Carolina.
She spent most of her time swimming around alone in aquarium. Her owner
says Charlotte has as many as four pups and could give birth in the next
two weeks. A research scientist in Georgia says Charlotte's pregnancy is the only documented
example she's aware of for the species. Okay, did you see the Dunkings
commercial, the one with Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez and Tom Brady and of
course Ben Affleck's best friend Matt Well. Duncan is taking off the popularity of
that and launching its dun King's Menu. It's a limited edition selection of food
and drinks named after Affleck's failed attempt to impress his wife Jalo with his musical
talents. I thought that was one of the more fun commercials the last year's
Super Bowl ad for Duncan, which also starred. Affleck helped sell more donuts
the following day than any other day in Duncan's history, so they thought we
should capitalize on this. So the Duncan King's menu now available includes Ben Affleck's
favorite iced coffee and dun King's Munchkin Skewers, which include three assorted donut holes
on a skewer. Available now at dun King's, actually at Duncan, but
it's the dun Kings menu. When we come back, We're talking tech with
Rich Demiro. Romance scammers have gone high tech. What you need to watch
for and guess what your smart TV is spying on you. You're listening to
wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM six forty. LA Police has spent
three thousand hours on duty guarding an abandoned high rise from trespassers. The Ocean
Wide Plaza in downtown LA has been tagged with graffiti. Earlier this week,
someone base jumped off it. LAPD Chief Morses guarding the unfinished building has strained
his already understaffed police department. Caltrans is putting the brakes on plans to reopen
pch south of Magoo Rock twenty four hours a Day, the shoulder of the
highway crumbled and fell onto the beach below from heavy rains last week. Caltrans
has made repairs, but says with another storm expected this weekend, having the
road open day and night is just too dangerous. Downtown Kansas City is turning
into a sea of red for Valentine's Day as Chiefs fans get ready to celebrate
their third Super Bowl victory in five seasons with a big Old parade. The
remote possibility that Travis Kelsey's girlfriend Taylor Swift might show up, plus temperatures in
the sixties are expected to draw a big crowd estimated at over a million people.
At six oh five, it's handle on the news. The House has
done it by a two fourteen two thirteen vote. It impeached the Homeland Security
Secretary. We'll talk about what's next there. Let's say good morning too,
the host of Rich on Tech Here on KFI, it's KTLA tech reporter Rich
DeMuro. Good morning, Rich, Hey, good morning to you. Amy.
So we're talking romance this Valentine's Day, and if you're looking for love,
there's a chance that scammers are looking for you. Yeah, we're pretty
much being exposed to scams no matter what we do online, but romance scams
definitely a thing one point three billion dollars in twenty twenty two median loss of
about forty four hundred dollars. The big red flag here. They want to
talk to you, they want to fall in love with you, but they
don't want to ever meet with you in person. That's the red flag.
These chats typically start on a standard dating platform, but they want to move
off of those platforms onto a more private chat. Why because the dating platforms
can't see what they're saying, they can't control what they're doing, and they
want money. They usually want you to send them crypto. They usually want
you to send them a bank transfer, and there's always an excuse amy they
can't meet with you because they're in the hospital, they're stuck in the border,
they have to work, whatever it is. But they need that money
because that will get them to you. Don't let this happen to you.
So here's my question, how many people actually all for this because it sounds
like it's a lot. It's a lot. I mean, with one point
three billion dollars in losses, that's a lot of people. So I think
that it's one of those things that you and I probably would not fall for.
But there are many, many people out there, and you know,
tens of thousands of people according to the FCC in twenty twenty two. I
mean, I think they said like seventy thousand People's that's a decent amount of
people. And you don't want it to happen to you or someone you love.
Yeah, and it's I think it's kind of a sad and it's kind
of sign of our times. I mean, people are really desperate to find
somebody and may take desperate measures to try and try and get it. You
know, yeah, you get that attention. It's online, it's easy,
and yeah, loneliness is a huge part of this. And you know,
just in general online dating works. People get married through online dating. But
there's also this dark side of there's just scammers, like there is in every
other aspect of our lives. Okay, so let's move on to happier things.
Your favorite new toy the Apple Vision Pro and Mark Zuckerberg has a thing
or two to say about them. Yeah, I thought this was actually pretty
wild. Now you have to remember the backstory. Apple really cut Facebook off
at the knees here with their you know, they're less ad tracking on the
iPhone. So Facebook is not friends with Apple. They do not like Apple,
even though of course Facebook app runs on many, many, many millions
of iPhones out there. But Mark Zuckerberg put on the Apple Vision Pro and
he has a competing product called the Quest three, and he said, you
know, I expected our product to be a better value, but I actually
think it's a better product overall. And he did his own little tech review.
He said, the Quest is more comfortable, it's lighter, there's no
wires, you can see better inside of it, it has more games,
the price tag is seven times less, and it's also going by the open
model versus Apple, which you know, traditionally everything they do is a closed
model where they control it from top to bottom. So he said, look,
you know, game on, but we think we have the better product.
And I thought it was very interesting for him to do this a CEO
of a major, major company. You don't typically see this, and I
thought it was pretty cool. So is the Quest three is five hundred dollars?
Yeah, Metaquest three. So they have they've been doing VR for like
almost ten years now, Okay, and have you tried out the metaquest three.
Yes I have. And you know, here's the thing Apple. What
he left out of the equation is that Apple has the major support of developers,
the software developers, because they have all the iPhone developers that have made
apps for the iPhone and the iPad, you know, theoretically could work on
apps for this. So he left that part out. And Apple has a
very good developer you know, software development kind of system, and so he
left that part out, and that could give Apple the upper hand. But
at this same time, I think that a lot of people love this metaquest
and you know, people are enjoying the Apple vision, but it's for a
very specific audience right now, and that is people who can afford it.
Yeah, people with a lot of money. Well it sounds I mean it
makes sense that like you might start with the quest and if you find you
really love it and then want to invest, then maybe you would upgrade over
to the vision. Pro Well, Zuckerberg's arguing that it's not necessarily an upgrade.
You're spending a lot of money for you know, wires to be attached
to your head, a heavier product, you know, something that you can't
necessarily work out in. So I think there's pros and cons of each.
I think that Apples will eventually be better if the price comes down, But
I think the Quest three is still a very good product. That what Mark
is saying, don't don't count us out just yet, And I think he's
right. Okay, And since I know that you you've been kind of all
over the vision pro did you see the family afore sitting around the table all
with their headsets on, not talking to each other? Oh my god.
I mean, if they can afford that in the future, sure, because
we're already doing it with our smartphones. I mean, if have you been
to like a restaurant lately, it's like the whole family's just sitting there eating
dinner with their phones on the table, which, by the way, I
do not recommend enjoy that time. My kids. They try to bring the
iPad to the table and I say, no, this is the ten minutes
where we're gonna sit here and chat and it's really fun. Sometimes it might
take a little bit, but they do open up eventually. Yeah. You
know what it really reminds me of did you see the movie Wally? Yeah,
so if you saw Wally, remember everybody sits in these chairs and they
have their big like ginormous it looks like slurpees or seven to eleven drinks,
and they all sit in front of screens and just tool around the ship and
nobody talks to each other. And they keep getting bigger too, by the
way, Yeah, well there's that. Okay, Walmart might be buying Visio.
What's up with that? Yeah? Kind of interesting. So Walmart,
according to the Wall Street Journal and talks to acquire the TV maker video for
almost or more than two billion dollars. Visio's the biggest TV sold at Walmart,
so they're their biggest customer. And I didn't know this, but Walmart
made two point seven billion dollars off of ads last year. Like I didn't
realize they had like a big advertising business. But this would give them more
ad inventory to sell. Wait, how they make money off of ads?
I'm guessing from their mobile products and also that Walmart TV that they have inside
Walmart. But this would give them more inventory. And the way that these
smart TVs work when you're watching these streaming services on a smart TV like a
Visio, you know, Netflix, gets or whoever you're watching gets you know
three minutes of ads and the TV manufacturer gets one minute and so they get
to sell that on their own so they have a lot of inventory. But
they also get the viewer data, and that is the big deal here.
That's the big play because I realized this. I just bought a smart TV
and they spy on you with this feature called automatic content recognition. So manufacturers
collect the data from all the shows that you're watching, whether you're streaming,
wing, a regular channel, whatever it is, and then they aggregate that
and sell it to advertising companies. So Walmart would be able to know if
people saw an ad for Crest and then bought Crest in their stores. Wow,
it's just amazing how they're doing that. Yeah it is. But by
the way, Amy, I always like a little takeaway for people, and
you can go into your settings on your TV, and I talked about this
on my radio show this weekend and turn off what's called automatic content recognition ACR.
Anything that says it's going to enhance your experience by collecting data. You
can turn that off on your smart TV and reclaim at least some of your
privacy. Okay, I'm going into my settings as soon as I get home
for more great tips like this. You can listen to Rich jamiro. He
is the host of Rich on Tech right here on KFI It's Saturdays from eleven
to two. You can also follow Rich on Instagram, at rich on Tech
website, richon Tech dot tv. Thanks so much, Rich, we'll talk
to you next week. Thanks Amy. Happy Valentine's Boy. All right,
you too. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Packaged foods sold in La could soon have a
new requirement. That requirement would be information on how long it would take for
the packaging to biodegrade. Habits of Waste President Shila Morvadi says the information would
be a crucial environmental step. Morvadi says food packaging often breaks down into smaller
microplastics over time that then go back into our water and food sources, and
we end up ingesting a lot of it. Some scientists say that we're eating
a credit card worth amount of plastic each week. The La City Council yesterday
unanimously approved a report on possibly enacting the requirement. Like trolly, kf I
news, a credit card size worth of plastics. That's scary news. Brought
to you by American Vision Windows. A report from the Center on Juvenile and
Criminal Justices, crime solving in California is at a record low, even though
spending on law enforcement is at a record high. California's not defunding the police.
We have put fifty percent more money into policing per capita and adjust for
inflation over the last thirty years, the advocacy groups Mike Males says there are
more than twice as many officers now than there were then, but the number
of arrests is declined by sixty six percent. He says he doesn't know why
people are blaming das when the offenses aren't even reaching their desks. Defense Secretary
Lloyd Austin has been released from the hospital he was admitted Sunday to be treated
for a bladder issue. Austin was diagnosed with prostate cancer in December and is
still dealing with complications from his treatment. The Pentagon says Austin will be recuperating
and performing his duties remotely for a period of time before he returns to work
at the Pentagon later this week when we come back. Amy's on it and
what I'm on this week is one of the lesser known Academy Award nominated movies.
We'll check that out in just about five minutes. Southland weather from KFI
becoming partly cloudy with highs in the Lieuden Mian's sixties fifties for the high desert
morning clouds, afternoon sun again tomorrow. Partly cloudy on Friday with highs in
the sixties to about seventy. I've got a chance of rain late Saturday as
a storm moves in. Rain's expected Sunday and Washington's Birthday Monday. You're listening
to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM six forty Happy Valentine's Day.
That BG song ranked number three by Billboards in the top one hundred, or
actually it's the top five, the top five heart love songs of all time.
Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The US
House has voted to impeach Online Security Secretary Alejandro Majorcis over the Biden administration's handling
of the US Mexico border. The vote was two fourteen two thirteen. President
Biden called the impeachment a blatant act of unconstitutional partisanship and petty political games.
Harvey Weinstein's lawyers will be asking the New York Court of Appeals to overturn his
twenty twenty rape conviction. They argue that the judge in his trial in Manhattan
trampled his right to a fair trial bye to succumbing to the pressure of the
me too movement by allowing three women who weren't part of the case to testify.
There's no getting around truck traffic in California. LA's Highway sixty to fifty
seven interchain interchange is ranked the worst truck bottleneck in the state and the seventh
worst in the nation. The American Transportation Research says the seven to ten at
the one oh five is the country's eleventh worst bottleneck spot, and the ten
and the fifteen in Ontario is eighteenth on the list at five point fifty.
We're gonna be talking with ABC's Kleb Silver about whether you need to panic after
yesterday's big drop in the stock market. Amys on it, Aami's on It's
on it, damis on it? What am I on? I'm on?
Streaming shows? There are movies, there are documentaries, there are series.
There's so much to see and how do you know what to even watch because
there's so much content, so hopefully I can guide you a little bit.
I take my recommendations from friends and relatives, and well, we're friends,
right, so I'll give my recommendations to you this week because it's Valentine's Day.
This one kind of falls into that category. It's called Path Lives.
It is nominated for an Academy Award, and when they announced the Academy Award
nominations, I said, I've never heard that movie. I've never heard that
name, don't know anything about it. So it is currently streaming on Paramount
Plus. Not all the Academy nominated movies are available on streaming, but this
one is, so I thought i'd check it out. It stars Greta Lee.
She plays Nora, and you may know her. I was like,
why do I know that person? She's on the Morning Show. She plays
Stella Bach, the producer on the Morning Show, so that's where you might
recognize her from. Also John mcguro who was in The Big Short and also
Oranges is the New Blacks. So there's a couple of familiar faces and there's
a lot of unfamiliar faces. But this is the story past lives of childhood
friends. So they grow up or they're growing up in South Korea, and
her family said it's time to go to the US, so they head over
to the US. And then the next time you see them, they're grown
up because years go by and they reconnect on like so many of us Facebook.
So he's still in Korea, she's now living in Manhattan, and they
start building a relationship from half a world away. And it was really interesting
to me because it comes with all the trappings of a long distance relationship.
And I've been in plenty over my life, and all of this was very
familiar to me, living separate lives, living in different times zones. Of
course, there's connectivity issues, and then the realization that you live half a
world away and can't just see each other and spend time together when you want
to. It's a beautiful little movie. It's very heartwarming, but it's also
very heartbreaking. There's no action in the movie. It's a lot of talk,
talk, talk, and it's just a really pretty story. And part
of it is subtitled, so you do have to kind of pay attention,
which for me is always a problem because I'm like, oh, I need
to go get some popcorn, or oh I got to go do this,
or oh, I need to check this on the computer, and then you
have to rewind it. That's the beauty of streaming is you can rewind them.
So just know that part of it is subtitled. I don't think it's
probably going to win an Academy Award, but I do think it's a very
good movie and something nice to curl up with on a rainy day. Oh,
this weekend we're supposed to get rain It's called Past Lives Again on Paramount
Plus. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Huntington Beach has started reviewing library books as part of
a city ordinance to keep sexually explicit material out of the kids section. Supporters
say sexual materials should be for parents to decide. Huntington Beach Mayor Gracie Vandermark
says this is not about removing educational books on, for example, puberty.
When I say sexually explicit, I'm talking about books that teach children how to
masturbate, what a climax feels like, books with erections. Friends of Huntington
Beach Library board member Carol Dawes says the libraries are fine how they are.
What one person might find offensive, another person might find that's a book I
want to read with my child. The books will be reviewed, then returned
or recategorized into teen or adult sections. In Orange County, Corbin Carson KFI
News News brought to you by American Vision Windows. The death toll from the
wildfire that destroyed the town of Leahina on Maui has risen to one hundred and
one. Police on the island have confirmed the identity of a seventy six year
old after months of trying to identify remains using das samples from family members.
Democrat Tom Swazi has won the special election in New York to replace ousted Republican
Congressman George Santos. Swase beat Republican Mazi pill Up last night to retake the
seat he held for three terms before he gave it up to run for governor.
Santos was thrown out in December, months after he was indicted on federal
fraud charges. Notts Berry Farm has plans to hire two thousand workers for the
twenty twenty fourth season. The open positions include bride operators, park attendance,
lifeguards, and hotel workers. The park is holding a week long hiring events
starting on Saturday. Officials say, if you're interested, you can apply,
interview, and even get hired the very same day. So since it's Valentine's
Day, and well, for me it's a it's not a very momentous day
because I don't have a Valentine, so I might just, you know,
curl up and watch a romantic movie. So I thought, well, what
are the most romantic movies of all time? And did a little digging found
the list of what is supposedly the two hundred best romantic comedies of all time,
and you can look for it on Rotten Tomatoes. But I gotta tell
you, I don't know that I agree with this, and maybe it's because
the movies are all too old, But according to Rotten Tomatoes, the number
one romantic movie of all time is The Philadelphia Story. Know it, well,
it's a really old one, but it does. It stars Carrie Grant
and Catherine Hepper and James Stewart, so big, huge stars back in the
day. But I've never heard of it and I don't even know if you
can stream it. So that's the number one. Number two, His Girl
Friday with Carrie Grant and Rosalind Russell. Number three, The Chopper on the
Corner with Margaret Sullivan and James Stewart. Oh, there's a theme. Number
four. Barbara Stanwork Stanwick and Harry Henry Fonda star in The Lady Eve.
That's from back in nineteen forty one. And in the top ten, we
don't hit a contemporary movie until number six. That's Broadcast News from nineteen eighty
seven. I love that movie, and Holly Hunter in that movie is spectacular
because you know, she's a news producer and every once in a while she
just breaks down and cries for kind of no reason because the stress, trust
stress of the day gets to her. And yeah, I feel you're paying
Holly Hunter. But I didn't really find that as a romantic movie because there
wasn't like a you know, didn't have a happy ending. And then Big
from nineteen eighty eight was number seven. That was adorable with Tom Hanks Defending
Your Life was number nine. Didn't even know that was a romance. But
I also didn't see that The Big Sick. And I remember The Big Sick.
It came out in twenty seventeen. It was nominated for something, which
is the only reason and that I watched it. I didn't think it was
very romantic. But here's my thing, the movie When Harry Met Sally,
which is for me, one of the best rom coms of all time.
It's like number forty nine on the list. I kind of think that's criminal.
We did a little poll on Instagram at Amy K. King Say Anything
popped up a couple of times. I'm thirteen going on thirty. That was
another good one. And The Notebook, I don't think that's a romantic comedy.
Boy, that one I just bawled my eyes out. If you want
to cry on Valentine's Day, watch The Notebook. But anyway, if you
want to see the complete list, you can check them out on Rotten Tomatoes.
You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI Am six forty.
Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LAPD has spent
three thousand hours on duty guarding an abandoned high rise from trespassers. The Ocean
Wide Plaza in downtown on LA has been tagged with graffiti, and earlier this
week someone base jumped off the building. Eighteen people have been arrested at the
site in recent days, mostly for trespassing and vandalism. Caltrans is putting the
brakes on plans to reopen PCH south of Magoo Rock twenty four hours a day.
The shoulder of the highway crumbled and fell onto the beach below from heavy
rains last week. PCH between Los Posis and Sycamore Canyon Roads is going to
be open from seven am till six pm until further notice for safety reasons.
Nearly half of the flowers, candy, and cards bought for Valentine's Day are
bought at the last minute. Walmart says seventy five percent of its Valentine's Day
sales happen on February thirteenth and fourteenth. An open table says last year,
thirty percent of Valentine's Day dinner reservations were made the day before, and eighteen
percent were made on the holiday itself. Nothing like a good procrastination when it
comes to true love. We're just minutes away from handle. On the news
this morning, the Republican's razor thin majority in the House just got even thinner
thanks to ousted Representative George Santos. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Caleb
Silver, the editor in chief at Investopedia. Caleb, should we start freaking
out yet? Not at all? Not at all, But I know yesterday
was pretty scary. Yesterday was a big icy wind blowing through the stock market.
Stocks are going to rebound this morning. A little bit of scare there
because inflation coming in hotter than expected, and I think that set a lot
of people by surprise. Okay, So how much was the dive because at
some point I saw it was down like seven hundred points at one point,
Yeah, the dove was down seven hundred points. Are around two percent rebounded
in the last hour of trading, which is a sign that maybe was a
little oversold. When we look at stock futures this morning, the market can
open in about forty or so minutes over here, Look to open higher.
Look, we've been at higher highs. Twelve out of the last thirteen week
the stock market's been higher. We haven't seen a streak like that since nineteen
seventy two. We keep making record high after record high. Not crazy to
see a pullback of one or two percent, especially when you have that economic
news telling us that inflation is still still pretty sticky high here, which means
the Federal Reserve is going to keep interest rates elevated probably until June. I
think a lot of folks thought they might lower rate sooner. I think they
need to think again and just wait until summer. Okay, And so Caleb,
since you're a money guy and you watch this, it used to be
that the stocks would be like up ten points or up twenty points or down
twenty points. Now we see these wild swings. Why are the ups and
downs so big? Now? Yeah, we have a much bigger stock market
than we used to go and forget, and we have a lot of money
in that stock market, around twenty two trillion dollars kind of floating through through
it every single day in one form or another, so lots more activity.
But also you see a lot of momentum stocks, and you've seen this lately
with AI related stocks like Navidia and others. These stocks are up one hundred
percent plus in the past year. So when investors decide they want to bet
on a big theme and a lot of them go into it, you see
these big moves in stocks, but you also see big moves to the downside.
But for long term investors, people that are saving for retirement and investing
through for retirement. Slow and steady wins the race because the stock market average
is about a ten percent gain every year going back about seventy or eighty years.
We had a big twenty four percent ga in last year, So just
hang in there. So when we see these big swings, not to panic.
Just know that it's part of the ride. It's absolutely part of the
right. And you also have to decide for yourself as an investor, what's
your threshold, how much of a loss are you willing to take? How
long are you going to be invested for If you're going to need that money
you have in the stock market in the next five years, you're going to
think very differently than somebody who's got twenty thirty, forty years of investing in
front of them. And if you're that person with a long term horizon,
stay of course, because the stock market has rewarded you on average, year
in year out for the past eighty or so years. Okay, And then
I want to ask you about inflation. And it appears that, like you
said, the FED is saying, oh, we might not do the any
reductions until early summer, and also that the inflation rate yesterday was higher than
expected and it was at three point one percent year over year. But since
like twenty twenty, and even though everybody goes, oh, the inflation rate's
coming down, it's still up. I mean it's prices are still sky high.
So like how much your price is up in the last like three years.
Yeah, prices are up some twenty percent in the past three years.
But remember everything we've been through. The thing that people need to remember is
that even though inflation is slowing, the rate of growth is slow, and
we call that disinflation. We're not getting deflation. Prices are not dropping except
in certain categories like used cars and trucks. Right now, you're not going
to find a lot of price drops, utilities a little bit cheaper, but
in general everything is at an elevated price and it's not going to be going
down to where it was in twenty nineteen. We have had serious in place,
you know, these last few years, and the economy's changed. So
you have to change how you think about how you spend, what it costs
to be you, how much you're taking in, and how much you're spending
if you're going to keep control of this, because this is where prices are
going to be for a while, and chances of them ever really coming down
again are It's sort of like, once they're up there, they're up there,
right. Once they're up there, they're up there. And we also
have very full employment in this country. Three point seven percent unemployment is full
employment according to the FED. And to keep employees happy, there's been a
lot of wage increases in the past year or two, about four percent,
which is unusual. So to keep paying employees a higher wage, companies have
to raise prices. They pass it on to us the consumers. They shrink
their packaging. That strenflation you're everybody talking about right now, this is all
part of the same thing. Higher prices giving us less for our money,
so we have to make our money last longer. That's the impact of inflation
planning is key. Okay, Caleb zip Silver, Thank you so much.
If you'd like to get more on investing and following, you can go to
at Caleb Silver on Instagram. Thank you so much for your time and your
information this morning. Thank you. All right, let's get back to some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Two students
in Anaheim have been hit by a speeding car that spun out of control and
drove up onto a sidewalk. Both kids were taken to the hospital yesterday and
are said to be in stable condition. Two other kids were able to jump
out of the way. The driver of the car stuck around and did cooperate
with police. Three people have been arrested for allegedly stealing several bronze plaques from
the Port of Los Angeles area in San Pedro. The plaques from the American
Merchant Marines Veterans Memorial and the International Warehouse and Longshore Union's Bloody Thursday Memorial were
stolen late last month. A plaque from the Japanese fishing village from Memorial on
Terminal Island was also taken. The arrest yesterday were made during a traffic stop.
The LA's Port Police chief says evidence found linked the people to the thefts
of grave markers at local cemeteries as well. An effort by House Republicans to
impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Majorcis has passed by one vote the YASER two fourteen
and the NASER two thirteen. The resolution is adopted ABCSJ O'Brien says. DHS
released a statement last night about the vote. They say quote, House Republicans
will be remembered by history for trampling on the Constitution for political gain rather than
working to solve the serious challenges at our bordery. President Biden also says history
will not look kindly on House Republicans. Mayorcis is the second Cabinet secretary in
US history to be impeached, and the first in nearly one hundred and fifty
years. The Senate is out of session, but we'll be talking about the
impeachment when lawmakers return February twenty sixth. That function made the list because it
doesn't have in the title. Wedding bills are ringing for hundreds of people in
Riverside County who are getting married this Valentine's Day. Officials have worned wait times
maybe longer for walk in appointments. Forty four ceremonies have already been scheduled the
County Clerk's offices. The goal is to make each ceremony memorable for each couple.
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